VEB INEX PLANS FOR A FACTORY FOR CHINA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004800210006-3
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• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 27, 2007
• Sequence Number: 6
• Content Type: REPORT

This materisi coatiins iniormstioit siteetitta the Na-
tional Defense of the United states within the mean-
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TN! SOURCE !VALUATIONS IN THIS RlFORT ARE DlFINITIVl.
THE AFFRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TlNTATIVl.
(FOR K!Y S!! RlVERS!)
1. VEB Pro~ektierungabuero fuer Schwermaschinenbau, Berlin/Spindlerafeld~ has been
re-named VES II~X (Indu~tr.i.e An:l~nnx~ n'xport), TnduAtral Installetions~ Export.
It is nt nre ~* ~ :4,~ tine d~esi ~~' `A ~;f~etor ~'or China ((D OC''(Dokumentet,=
Lion China)
2. ThA preliminary plan of tY~e 'factory' is complete, any tho technical Z~l~m'~is bb-'
ing devol6ped.: ~Hecently~ a delegiition-consisting; of the following returned to:
East Germany from China:
Adolf Hegemann, Hauptverwaltungsleiter Radio-und Fernmeldeteehnik~
Berthold Kbp e, engineer with VEB INEX;
Susskow,(fnu~~ engineer with VEB INEX,
'(1^iey had completed-the agreement with the Chinese on the preliminary plan. It
is anticipated in VEB INEX that construction work on.the foundations of
Department IV will start in the Autumn of 1954, and .that-the whole combine will
be completed in 1956-1957,
3. Attached as Annex A is a list of the products or activities planned for each
department of the factory:
L,,. Attached as Annex B is the ground plan of the _ factory, on a scale of
1:3,000, using the original numbers. A key to this is given in Annex C.
(NOTE: Wathinpfon dis}ribufioR indieoled by "X"j Fi.ld di~fribufion by "#".)
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.CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This is UNEVALUATED Information
INFORMATION REPORT - ing of the 13sylotU-ls,Lawe, Title t8, v.8.0. Ekes. 793
and 794, .tits trinsmiseion or revelation of which in
sny manneY to an ttnauthortsed Derson is Dttihibited
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 Production of the iac_tory b~ De~artment~
Department I
Precision engineering shop
Preliminary mechanical finishing shop (Mech. Vorfertigung)
Varnishing shop and infrared drying plant
Battery section
Rotary condenaers (Drehkondensatoren)
Loudspeakers
Telephone mouth pieces and earphones
Dgrnamic microphones
Measuring instruments
Production of bearing stones (Zeiss, Jena, system)
Plastics press
Magnet production
Sinter magnate
Metal powder production
I~ydrogen plant
Cast magnets
~e~artment II
condenaers
Resistances
Fixed reaiataneea
(Drehwiderstaende)
Department III
Ceramics
Ceramic condensers
Ceramic tube plates (Rohrenplaetten) and resistances.
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Annex A
Department: T'it
Repair, machine construction and electrical workshop.
Pig-iron and aluminum foundry
Tool shop
Forge
Department V
Powers steam and gas installations
pepartment VI
Development laboratory for measuring instruments anc~ reeistanee~.
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' Annex B
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Department I
l.I Precision engineering and instruments shop
1.2 Plastics press
1.3(a) Magnet alloying shop
1.3 (b) Hydrogen plant
DeAa,_? rtment II
2.1 Condensers shop
2.2 I~esistanoes shop
2.3 Selenium rectifiers shop
De,_.tmen! t III
3.1 High frequency techniques and ceramics shop
3.2 Ceramic magnets shop
~enartment IV
4.1 Machine construction shop
4.2 Tool construction shop
4.3 Foundry
4.4 Building workshop
5.1 Transformer station
5.2(a) Power unit
5.2 (b) Coal bunker
5.3 (a) Coal bunker
5.3 (b) Gasworks
5.3(0) Gasometer
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The scale rem~ine correct. Numeric
symbols are original: p a ca symbols ~rere added to aid in the compilation
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of the key (Annex G). In this table 5.4 ~Y
ducing installetionj though it Baas not marked on the original.
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Garage
Repair shop
Inflammable materials storehouse.
Central storehouse
Locomotive sheds
Ad.~ninistration
9.1 Central administrative offices
9.2 Fire service
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